The Pasco facility, known as the Novus Medical Detox Center, opened in spring 2007. It described its approach in a November 2006 newsletter: "Because prescription drug use is so pervasive in this country, many people who want Scientology auditing services are on these drugs and now there are few, if any, sane medical facilities that can withdraw them."

Mitchell said the corporation that owns the Spring Hill center is Narconon Spring Hill Inc. Narconon is a secular, nonprofit group that has 145 units in 45 countries around the world.